Wal-Mart will open a neighborhood market in midtown St. Petersburg by January, providing 95 jobs and the areas only grocery store. Monday morning more than 200 people stood in intermittent rain waiting for their chance to apply for one of the spots in the new store. Mary Cummings got there at 6:30 to beat the crowd. The elderly African-American woman said from a lawn chair that she already has a job at a laundry mat, but isnt making enough money to support herself.

This year, thereâs much talk of an âenthusiasm gap,â even though many admit thereâs no way to accurately predict whoâs going to show up at the polls. With factors like rainy weather supposedly influencing voter turnout, only time will tell whoâs voting today, and for which candidates. Today WMNF spoke with voters at several south St. Petersburg precincts that overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008, to find out if Democratic support was still there despite this being an off year....

Gertrude Jones has been a teacher at the Happy Workers Childrenâs Center in midtown St. Petersburg for 34 years. The daycare was founded by Willie Lee McAdams, the wife of Pastor Oscar McAdams in the Trinity Presbyterian Church in 1929.

The center started in the storeroom of the church on 920 19th St. S. and expanded into what it is today, she says. Even though 90 percent of the children are âpoor and minority,â 90 percent of them achieve at or above grade level, according to 2008 ...